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# System prepended metadata

title: Compare Side-Runners

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# Compare Side-Runners

## Results

It's not accurate comparision in any case.
Just a show case.

Notice that siderunner doesn't produces any logs as it's not a binary it's a binary.
Others spend some time one it plus parsing parameters which library as we doesn't do.

| Runner | time |
| :--------: | :--------: |
| selenium-side-runner | 0m11.730s |
| selenese-runner-java | 0m7.194s |
| **siderunner** | **0m5.567s** |


## selenium-side-runner


```bash,
[mzhiburt@fedora pantheon]$ time sudo selenium-side-runner -c "browserName=firefox" -s http://127.0.0.1:4444 examples/wiki.side
info:    Running examples/wiki.side
 PASS  ./DefaultSuite.test.js (9.392s)
  Default Suite
    ✓ open main page (5567ms)

Test Suites: 1 passed, 1 total
Tests:       1 passed, 1 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        10.261s, estimated 11s
Ran all test suites.


real	0m11.730s
user	0m3.046s
sys	0m0.304s
```

## selenese-runner-java

```bash=
[mzhiburt@fedora Downloads]$ time java -jar selenese-runner.jar ~/projects/pantheon/examples/wiki.side
[2021-07-15 16:04:17.124 +03:00] [INFO] Start: Selenese Runner 3.33.0
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.opt.Injector (file:/home/mzhiburt/Downloads/selenese-runner.jar) to method java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String,byte[],int,int)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.reflect.opt.Injector
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
[2021-07-15 16:04:17.483 +03:00] [INFO] No capabilities.
1626354257792	geckodriver	INFO	Listening on 127.0.0.1:14685
1626354257999	mozrunner::runner	INFO	Running command: "/usr/bin/firefox" "--marionette" "-foreground" "-no-remote" "-profile" "/tmp/rust_mozprofilevVHI7c"
1626354258546	Marionette	INFO	Marionette enabled
console.warn: SearchSettings: "get: No settings file exists, new profile?" (new NotFoundError("Could not open the file at /tmp/rust_mozprofilevVHI7c/search.json.mozlz4", (void 0)))
1626354260738	Marionette	INFO	Listening on port 38509
1626354260837	Marionette	WARN	TLS certificate errors will be ignored for this session
[2021-07-15 16:04:20.903 +03:00] [INFO] Detected dialect: W3C
[2021-07-15 16:04:20.920 +03:00] [INFO] Initial window size: system default
[2021-07-15 16:04:20.920 +03:00] [INFO] Initialized: FirefoxDriver
[2021-07-15 16:04:20.975 +03:00] [INFO] Timeout: 30000 ms
[2021-07-15 16:04:20.975 +03:00] [INFO] Max retries: 0
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.403 +03:00] [INFO] Start: TestProject[Wiki] (/home/mzhiburt/projects/pantheon/examples/wiki.side)
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.423 +03:00] [INFO] Existing driver found: FirefoxDriver
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.435 +03:00] [INFO] Current speed: 0 ms/command
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.435 +03:00] [INFO] Start: TestSuite[Default Suite] (/home/mzhiburt/projects/pantheon/examples/wiki.side)
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.454 +03:00] [INFO] Existing driver found: FirefoxDriver
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.462 +03:00] [INFO] Current speed: 0 ms/command
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.462 +03:00] [INFO] Start: TestCase[open main page] (/home/mzhiburt/projects/pantheon/examples/wiki.side)
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.463 +03:00] [INFO] baseURL: https://www.wikipedia.org
[2021-07-15 16:04:21.478 +03:00] [INFO] <1> Command#1: open("https://www.wikipedia.org/")
JavaScript error: https://start.fedoraproject.org/, line 292: TypeError: $(...).uls is not a function
[2021-07-15 16:04:22.981 +03:00] [INFO] - [Success] URL: [https://www.wikipedia.org/] / Title: [Wikipedia]
[2021-07-15 16:04:22.982 +03:00] [INFO] - Cookie: GeoIP=[BY:BR:Brest:52.09:23.68:v4] (domain=.wikipedia.org, path=/, expire=*)
[2021-07-15 16:04:22.982 +03:00] [INFO] - Cookie: WMF-Last-Access=[15-Jul-2021] (domain=www.wikipedia.org, path=/, expire=2021-08-16 15:00:00 +03:00)
[2021-07-15 16:04:22.982 +03:00] [INFO] - Cookie: WMF-Last-Access-Global=[15-Jul-2021] (domain=.wikipedia.org, path=/, expire=2021-08-16 15:00:00 +03:00)
[2021-07-15 16:04:22.983 +03:00] [INFO] <2> Command#2: storeText("css=.localized-slogan", "slogan")
[2021-07-15 16:04:23.048 +03:00] [INFO] - [The Free Encyclopedia]
[2021-07-15 16:04:23.051 +03:00] [INFO] End(1.587sec): TestCase[open main page] (/home/mzhiburt/projects/pantheon/examples/wiki.side)
[2021-07-15 16:04:23.052 +03:00] [INFO] End(0.000sec): TestSuite[Default Suite] (/home/mzhiburt/projects/pantheon/examples/wiki.side)
[2021-07-15 16:04:23.053 +03:00] [INFO] End(0.000sec): TestProject[Wiki] (/home/mzhiburt/projects/pantheon/examples/wiki.side)
1626354263057	Marionette	INFO	Stopped listening on port 38509
[2021-07-15 16:04:23.749 +03:00] [INFO] Quit: FirefoxDriver
[2021-07-15 16:04:23.750 +03:00] [INFO] Exit code: 0 (SUCCESS)

real	0m7.194s
user	0m9.351s
sys	0m1.291s
```

## siderunner

```bash
[mzhiburt@fedora pantheon]$ time cargo run --example wiki
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.08s
     Running `target/debug/examples/wiki`

real	0m5.567s
user	0m0.225s
sys	0m0.057s
```